Storage Services UT run against a mock server which should make tests run much faster. (just “npm test”)

Service Bus

The Service Bus provides secure messaging and relay capabilities that enable building distributed and loosely-coupled applications in the cloud, as well hybrid application across both private and public clouds. It supports multiple messaging protocols and patterns and handles delivery assurance, reliable messaging and scale for your applications. The Service Bus is a managed service that is operated by Microsoft and has a 99.9% monthly SLA. more here

In our latest update, you can now access Service Bus right from within your node.js applications! Below are snippets indicating usage.

Here’s an example of using the apis to create a queue

Here is how you send a message with a specific topic

And finally this is how you poll the queue for a message.

Be sure to also check out our unit tests for more samples. We’ll also have content on the dev portal for Service Bus very shortly.

We would like to thank the community and our advisors for the feedback and suggestions so far, which we have tried to accommodate as much possible for this release.

We’d also like to thank the community contributors that participated (Einar in particular a big thanks) in this release. We are looking forward to more contributions in the future

As to the road ahead, well here’s a little teaser…..

Service runtime –> Allows you to obtain and control the information on the actual machine your app is running in.

Service management and deployment –> Manage and deploy services on any platform using node cli tools.